| bigwill |
I was listening to a song and I noticed that my woofers were moving oddly - as in, moving in and out in the order of about 2 or 3Hz, roughly in time with the music. This was from an mp3. They sounded fine, they weren't bottoming out or distorting, although this concerned me so I turned off the song. Were my woofers enduring huge amounts of power for no reason? Was the actual amplitude of the rumble low but causing my woofers to excurt quite a lot due to its very low frequency? I'm really worried that their voice coils got unessecarily hot and somehow got damaged. I wasn't even listening at particularly high levels.
BTW The song in question was Michael Jackson - Don't stop 'Til You Get Enough |
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| ChesterFuzzin' |
| get a subsonic filter |
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| richie00boy |
| The MP3 was recorded by somebody with a vinyl setup, and not a great one at that. Buy the album on CD and encode it yourself :) |
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| bigwill |
| quote: | Originally posted by richie00boy
The MP3 was recorded by somebody with a vinyl setup, and not a great one at that. Buy the album on CD and encode it yourself :) |
It sounded awfully clean for vinyl, but what do I know, I'm too young to have experienced proper records :clown:
Do you think my speakers could have overheated from this? I'm sure they would move more if I put, say, a 3v battery accross their terminals, and that's not an awful lot of power through 8 ohms |
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| richie00boy |
| No they will be fine. If they are vented speakers the amount of power needed to make them shake like that is peanuts. |
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| bigwill |
| They're transmission lines luckily :cool: |
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| djQUAN |
| quote: | Originally posted by bigwill
They're transmission lines luckily :cool: |
actually, the same thing happens with TL's as with vented boxes when run below their tuning frequency. :D |
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| richie00boy |
| Beat me to it dj :) |
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